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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 20, 1999
Filed:
Feb. 24, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Barbara Loechel, Toms River, NJ (US);
Assignee:
ECCS, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
711135 ; 711143 ; 711146 ;
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for managing a cache which includes a number of dirty lines in which (a) the percentage of dirty lines in the cache is determined, (b) the cache is flushed if the determined percentage of dirty lines exceeds a predetermined threshold, (c) whether a state of a system is idle is determined based on at least two indicators including (i) CPU idle percentage, (ii) data bus busyness percentage, (iii) percentage of dirty lines, and (iv) I/Os per second, and (d) if the state of the system is determined to be idle, a line of the cache is flushed.